Masks

Masks is a poem about the masks we wear and what it means to take one off, in your own eyes as well as those eyes around you.

There are four stanzas of eight lines each. Every other line rhymes (the even numbered lines which have 6 syllables), the odd numbered lines have 8 syllables. I've presented this poem two ways, once as "4 paragraphs" and then once in the more traditional poetic tradition (where the lines are split into 8 and 6 syllable structures, with the rhyme at the end of the eve...